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World Is Ill-Prepared for Global Warming Impacts, UN Says
2014-03-31 02:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Global warming is depleting fresh water and crops, destroying coral reefs and melting the Arctic, the United Nations said today in a report that concludes the world is ill-prepared to face many new threats. Climate change has brought key risks that endanger lives and health worldwide, including storm surges and coastal flooding worsened by rising sea levels; infrastructure destruction and the disruption of power networks, communications and health services by extreme weather, and the depletion...
IPCC report: global warming increase heatwaves, flooding & conflict
2014-03-31 02:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Flooding, storm surges, droughts and heatwaves are among the key risks of global warming that will pose the greatest threat to humans in the future, according to the most authoritative report to date on the impact of climate change. Violent conflicts and food shortages were also forecast to increase over coming decades due to rising temperatures, while a growing number of animal and marine species will face increased risk of extinction. The warnings were published on Monday in the Intergovernmental...
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Global Warming to Exacerbate Global Security Issues - UN Report
2014-03-31 00:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
International Business Times: As the world's temperatures continue to warm up, so does the tempers globally. Hot tempers may exacerbate global security issues as people fight over resources, particularly water and energy, which could lead to civil wars and strife between nations and refugees, a report by a recent United Nations climate panel due for release said. Geoff Dabelko, Ohio University security and environment professor, one of the lead authors of the report's chapter on security and climate change, told AP. "Climate...
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UN report dials up humanity's global warming risks; scientist says 'We're all sitting ducks'
2014-03-30 19:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Global warming is driving humanity toward a whole new level of many risks, a United Nations scientific panel reports, warning that the wild climate ride has only just begun. Twenty-first century disasters such as killer heat waves in Europe, wildfires in the United States, droughts in Australia and deadly flooding in Mozambique, Thailand and Pakistan highlight how vulnerable humanity is to extreme weather, says a massive new report from a Nobel Prize-winning group of scientists released early...
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Vegetarian Advocates Say You Must Give Up Meat If You Care About Global Warming
2014-03-30 17:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science 2.0: Greenhouse gas emissions from food production may threaten the UN climate target of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius, according to a paper from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. What is the data? No data needed. Tomorrow, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is releasing another report on the impacts of climate change and while it isn't as aggressive in its claims as previous reports, there is still cause for concern. Western nations like the United States...
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